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Mood music Whatever you may be doing this weekend, whether it’s playing a few rounds of golf or taking a trip to the seaside or pruning your rose bushes, let us help you to set the mood and deepen your sense of tranquility and peace with this admirably tolerant, progressive and diversity celebrating video.
Relax and enjoy!
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Nice – in the old sense of the word.
Particularly the 3 year olds being taught to hate Jews and other infidels and being praised on various Muslim television stations for their blood lust.
Islam does not have to be this way, but that is the way that the radicals have taken it.
The music is not to my normal taste, but I can understand the sentiments. Indeed there is something wrong about people who are unable to feel strongly about enemies who wish to exterminate or enslave us.
The Western “liberal” state of mind which finds it impossible to understand that fanatical enemies are just that, is a deeply mistaken state of mind.
It is not just the terrorism. It is the “little things” like the taxi drivers at Minneapolis airport who refuse to accept passengers who they suspect might be carrying alcohol, or who have dogs with them. Or the staff at “Target” stores who refuse to touch any packet containing pig products – but also refuse to resign.
And a thousand other things from the names of Muslim sporting teams in the United States (at a time when nonMuslim teams are having to drop old names like the “Crusaders”), to what is taught to Muslims (teachings often financed by “our friends the Saudis”).
Peaceful coexistance with the “dominance” school of Islam (Sunni or Shia) is not possible. I very strongly hope that nondominance Muslims (both Sunni and Shia) manage to defeat the radicals, but (tragically) non dominance Muslims seem very weak at the moment.
I am not in the habit of “seeking out monsters to destroy” for I know there is the risk of “becomming a monster” that way, but on 9/11 (and so many other times) the monsters sought out us – thus making war unavoidable.
Blimey, never thought I’d find music like that worth listening to. Good stuff!
Paul,
Alas, Islam does have to “be like that” because that is what it is. Muslims, though, don’t because they are also humans as well as members of the Islamo-Borg collective.
Paul,
We all hope that the “non-dominance” Muslims can win, but they need our help and support, they need to be listened to and believed, and most of all, they need us to take it all seriously enough to spend some time learning about and understanding the source of the problem. Because at the moment we don’t.
How many people in the West are aware of Islamic history? Dhimmi and devshirme? Khalid bin Walid or Aurangezeb? How many people can give even a basic account of the life and activities of Muhammad? How many understand how deeply rooted jihad is, precisely what it prescribes for the kuffar, the implications of jihad being fard al kifaya? Of the Islamic doctrines of taqiya and kitman?
And because we know virtually nothing, we can be easily bamboozled by the Muslim’s patronising reassurances, temporarily persuaded by whoever spoke last but ultimately unsure of what to believe, and so in the end believing whatever we feel most comfortable with. CAIR and their like sing us lullabies, and we sleep.
Pa A,
Well I know of what you speak but I don’t believe that these “non-dominence” muslims exist. Everyone wants their politcal ideas to be dominant and Islam is entirely political.
It’s a matter of definition. Every school of orthodox Islam requires Jihad to subdue the entire world, so arguably, any so-called Muslim who didn’t believe that would be, by their definitions, an apostate sentenced to death.
Nevertheless, there are a small number of people who claim to be Muslims, practice the five pillars of Islam, and yet believe that large parts of it must be reformed. They’re a lot smaller minority than the conventional view would have you believe, I’d guess less than 5%, although I don’t really know, but they do exist. The problem is that they’re hunted people. Seen as ‘traitors’ by other Muslims, their treatment is far worse than even us life-long unbelievers. They are threatened with violence and death wherever they go, and most keep silent about their beliefs.
There are also many millions of Muslims who do not believe in aggressive jihad out of simple ignorance. They know relatively little about their own religion – like the fluffy-bunny version of Christianity taught to young children in school, which is all many adults around here now know – and if the topic of jihad has never come up, they will often pick up instead on the media understanding. I’ve had quite a few conversations with Muslims – particularly but not exclusively those in the West – where they simply do not know the truth about their own religion, and so are genuinely outraged when the more knowledgable criticise it. When you show them the source material they are shocked, and firmly reject those violent beliefs. They will often continue to make excuses, though, but I don’t push it knowing the fate of apostates. However, I believe that many Muslims are as deceived and deluded about Islam by the apologists as Westerners are. Groups like Hizb ut Tahrir call them the hypocrites – a historical reference to early Islam – and regard them as unbelievers in need of correction, which will be applied as soon as they restore the Caliphate.
It’s all very complicated. In Britain there are only about 15% openly and actively against us, but perhaps another 65% who had might as well be. The others might be talked around, but it is hard for them. The number who dare to stand up and work against the orthodoxy as they should are a tiny, tiny minority, less than 1%. But they do exist.
Robert Spencer often points out that he has a Muslim, Tashbih Sayyed, on the board of his JihadWatch organisation. But until we are all able and willing to recognise them as such, and distinguish them from the liars, they will remain a tiny minority.